|Election|Member|Party|
|---|---|---|
|1885|William James Beadel|Conservative|
|1892 by-election|Thomas Usborne|Conservative|
|1900|Sir Carne Rasch, Bt|Conservative|
|1908 by-election|E. G. Pretyman|Conservative|
|1918|E. G. Pretyman|Coalition Conservative|
|1922|E. G. Pretyman|Conservative|
|1923|Sydney Walter Robinson|Liberal|
|1924|Sir Henry Honywood Curtis-Bennett|Conservative|
|1926 by-election|Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury|Conservative|
|1931|Sir Vivian Leonard Henderson|Conservative|
|1935|John Macnamara|Conservative|
|1945 by-election|Ernest Millington|Common Wealth|
|1946|Ernest Millington|Labour|
|1950|Sir Hubert Ashton|Conservative|
|1964|Norman St John-Stevas|Conservative|
|1987|Simon Burns|Conservative|
|1997|constituency abolished - see West Chelmsford, Maldon and Chelmsford East, Rayleigh|constituency abolished - see West Chelmsford, Maldon and Chelmsford East, Rayleigh|

Question: how many members identified with the liberal party?
Answer: 1